https://molochou.com/en/blog I design and build digital products end to end, from the first sketch to production code. en Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://molochou.com/en/blog/why-i-stopped-handing-off-figma-files https://molochou.com/en/blog/why-i-stopped-handing-off-figma-files Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The handoff is not a step in the process. It is the place where the reasoning gets thrown away and only the picture survives. https://molochou.com/en/blog/row-level-security-is-a-design-decision https://molochou.com/en/blog/row-level-security-is-a-design-decision Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Where you put authorization decides what a forgotten filter costs. In the query it costs a data leak. In the database it costs an empty screen. https://molochou.com/en/blog/eight-days-is-a-constraint-not-a-boast https://molochou.com/en/blog/eight-days-is-a-constraint-not-a-boast Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The number is not a measure of speed. It is a list of everything that did not get built, and the list is the interesting part. https://molochou.com/en/blog/two-layouts-beat-one-responsive-layout https://molochou.com/en/blog/two-layouts-beat-one-responsive-layout Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A phone is not a narrow desktop. Squeezing one layout through media queries produces a design that is wrong at both ends. https://molochou.com/en/blog/design-tokens-live-in-the-browser-already https://molochou.com/en/blog/design-tokens-live-in-the-browser-already Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every rendered page is a complete token set. The work is not extraction, it is deciding which of the four hundred greys were ever meant to be a system. https://molochou.com/en/blog/what-a-plugin-panel-teaches-about-density https://molochou.com/en/blog/what-a-plugin-panel-teaches-about-density Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three hundred and twenty pixels, inside somebody else's interface, competing with the file the person actually came to work on. Nothing survives that is not load-bearing. https://molochou.com/en/blog/timezones-and-the-deadline-that-drifts https://molochou.com/en/blog/timezones-and-the-deadline-that-drifts Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A deadline is a day, not a moment. Store it as a moment and it will quietly land on the wrong square of somebody else's calendar. https://molochou.com/en/blog/reading-a-deck-instead-of-retyping-it https://molochou.com/en/blog/reading-a-deck-instead-of-retyping-it Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every redesign of a presentation starts with a .pptx and two bad options. Screenshots give you nothing to edit, and rebuilding by hand costs the afternoon before the work begins.